Tonight I captured a couple of shots of the February Full Moon -- also known as the Full Snow Moon in North America -- along with the bright star, Regulus, in the evening sky.
Regulus is the brightest star in the Constellation Leo the Lion. Regulus appears singular to the human eye, but its actually a quadruple star system composed of four stars that are organized into two pairs. The Regulus system lies approximately 79 light years (or 24 parsecs) from the Sun.
The February Full Snow Moon is 2024’s farthest full micromoon for year at a distance of about 252,225 miles (or 405,917 kilometers) from the Earth. This is in contrast to the average distance between the Earth and the Moon, which is around 238,900 miles (or 384,472 km).
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